Mike Tully on June 11th, 2010

(NOTE:  This book is available from Amazon and can be purchased by clicking on the advertisement to the right.  You can also purchase Nancy Willard’s ground-breaking “Cybersafe Kids” as well as “Cyberbullying in the Digital Age,” the pioneering work by Susan Limber, Robin Kowalski, and Patricia Agatston.  All three books should be in the library [...]

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Mike Tully on June 11th, 2010

A SURVEY has found that 80 per cent of young people would not report cyber-bullying – often because they feared they would not be allowed back online. Speaking in Melbourne yesterday, Perth-based doctor Julian Dooley said this was part of the reason children did not talk to parents about cyber-bullying. MORE  >>>

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The debate surrounding the effect of violent video games on today’s youth is a pretty contentious one: some insist that superfluous exposure to violence only encourages similar behavior in hormonally charged teenagers; others argue that a child’s behavioral problems have more to do with parenting than what games he or she plays after school. According [...]

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